The 12 Days of Christmas During a Recession

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Ready or not, the Christmas season is upon us. In fact, I am already being subjected to non-stop Christmas songs at work. As most of us wonder [...]

Recession Proof Businesses

Holy ressession proof industry Batman, The Dark Knight movie set a new record by making $155.34 in its first weekend of release. Yes, these numbers are helped by the fact that the average price of a movie ticket is over $7 (where I live it is $9), but that is still a lot of [...]

Green Eggs and Spam

Within the last four days, I have learned that my rent will go up $50/month and that my health and dental insurance will increase a combined $24/month. Considering the increase of food and gas prices plus the fact that I did not get a raise this year, the power of my paycheck is probably [...]

Too many meetings!!!

Today at work, we were subjected to SIX different meetings. These meetings took up a grand total of 3 1/2 hours or 43.75% of our work day. What a waste of a day!! The worst part is that all of these meetings were pretty much pointless and could have been summarized in [...]

Financial Health Days

I’m sure everyone has heard of and probably taken their fair share of Mental Health Days. When your job just pushes you over the edge with stress and aggravation, nothing beats a day off to relax and reload.

Considering the current economy and the millions of Americans burdened with debt, President Bush and Congress recently [...]

Stop complaining about Gas Prices!

I am a believer that if you have no control over something, it is pointless to stress about it.  As a result, unless you are some oil executive or have ties to the Saudi royal family, there is NOTHING you can do to change gas prices.  Yes, there are some ways that you can limit [...]